སྙན་ཚིག་གི་རིག་བྱེད་

སྙན་ཚིག་གི་རིག་བྱེད། (Wyl. snyan tshig gi rig byed ) Pron.: nyentsik gi rikjé

• Skt. सामवेदः, sāmaveda, Pron.: samaveda. From Sanskrit: 'Veda of chants', N. of one of the three principal Vedas | it contains a number of verses or stanzas nearly all of which [except about 78] occur in the Ṛig-veda and which, modified in various ways, are chanted, mostly, by the Udgātṛi priests at Soma sacrifices | the Saṃhitā of the Sāma-veda consists of two parts | the first, called Ārcika [or Pūrvārcika or Chando-grantha], contains 585 verses disjoined from their proper sequence in the Ṛig-veda and arranged in 59 Daśatis or decades, which again are subdivided into Prapāṭhakas and Ardha-prapāṭhakas | the second, called Uttarārcika or Uttarā-grantha, contains 1225 verses, also chiefly from the Ṛik-saṃhitā, but less disjointed than in the first part, and arranged in nine Prapāṭhakas with Ardha-prapāṭhakas, mostly, however, grouped in triplets | the directions for the formation of Sāmans or chants out of these verses are carefully laid down in the Gānas or manuals for chanting, two of which, viz. the Geya-gāna and Āraṇya-gāna, are a directory for the Ārcika portion, and two, viz. Ūha-gāna and Ūhya-gāna, for the Uttarārcikā | in | in iv, 124 it is described as having a special reference to the Pitṛis or deceased ancestors, and its sound is therefore said to possess a kind of impurity, whereas the Ṛig-veda has the gods for his objects and the Yajurveda men | the Sāma-veda is said to possess 8 Brāhmaṇas | see [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW